Editor's Note: Facing common challenges such as COVID-19 and economic recession, China and the US should make joint efforts to put bilateral ties back on track. What measures should the two countries take to manage their differences and enhance cooperation? Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily.
Unlike his predecessor, President Joe Biden places democracy and human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. At the same time, his government is partnering with an authoritarian Vietnam to deal with larger strategic problems posed by a revisionist China. To further strengthen ties with Hanoi without compromising the U.S. commitment to promote human rights, the Biden
The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to tackling corruption as an economic and national security priority, and has pledged to lead international efforts to bring transparency to the global financial system and close loopholes that undermine democracy. As the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance states:
“We will take special aim at confronting corruption, which rots democracy from the inside and is increasingly weaponized by authoritarian states to undermine democratic institutions…We will crack down on tax havens and illicit financing that contribute to income inequality, fund terrorism, and generate pernicious foreign influence.”
Today, in line with this commitment, President Biden is releasing a National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM) that establishes the fight against corruption as a core national security interest of the United States. The NSSM directs a 200-day interagency review that will culminate in a report and recommendations on how the U.S.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 01, 2021 at 11:06 AM
USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires an SM-2 missile.
WASHINGTON: The chairman of the House seapower subcommittee, Rep. Joe Courtney, fired a shot across the bow of the White House shipbuilding budget, questioning its proposed cuts to surface warships.
An even more prominent Democrat, Senate Armed Services chairman Jack Reed, signaled loud and clear he plans to treat the Biden budget as a rough draft, not gospel. While Reed didn’t cite specific areas of disagreement the way Courtney did, he sounded sympathetic to pleas for higher spending.
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“The President’s Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point,” Reed said in a statement late Friday. “Of note, Fiscal Year 2022 is the first in many years that we will not be constrained by the Budget Control Act. Eliminating arbitrary spending caps means every department’s budget can, and should, be argued on its merits.”